She stops being a battered wife when she becomes a protective mother.

Godiva had seemed very much like a protective mother.

He has a protective mother and had three brothers, all of whom died young.

Ruth is a protective mother and wants a say in whom her daughters choose for friends.

What role was the older woman acting out here besides the protective mother?

His fiercely protective mother had made sure he maintained the clean police record that allowed him to escape into the Navy.

She looked across my boma, still the protective mother.

They are very protective mothers and will attack anything that gets near their young.

Nobody had expected him to live except his protective mother.

Criticism of a loving, protective mother for being "overenmeshed" with her children.